Talk:Chronotype

Adding to WikiProject Psychology
I agree -- this is a pretty well-developed page (no longer start class, IMHO!). We will be adding links to other Wiki pages about specific measures and related topics in psychology, too. Looking forward to it! Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 13:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Untitled
I've just started this article. More to come: history, researchers, assessment tools, references etc. Hordaland 10:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Done, now, except perhaps for a couple of External Links. So now people are welcome to tell me what I've done wrong -- or maybe even right?
 * Hordaland 19:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You have done an excellent job, Hordaland, I feel that I have learnt a lot more about this topic, including up-to-date scales to assess chronotype (those more up-to-date than the Horne-Ostberg Scale). I was especially interested to see the reference to creativity and chronotype. This article is well-referenced, clearly written and contains good coverage of the topic - it is a good example of what all Wikipedia articles should be like! ACEOREVIVED 20:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Gosh. (Blushing)  Thanks.
 * What's so great about Wikipedia is that one can work in a flash of "inspiration" on something intensely interesting. 'Twould be a drag to have to, by someone else's deadlines. Hordaland 10:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Just a thought, but are articles supposed to be written in the first person, albeit plural (maybe other species use Wikipedia and find it offensive?) I would say nix the we's, maybe switch to 3rd person. Ben 02:50, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. Fixed.  (I hope I got 'em all.) Hordaland 16:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Sleep deprivation
I agree that chronic sleep deprivation isn't the key to whether extreme eveningness is a disorder or not. Lots of people avoid the worst sleep deprivation by sleeping, say 4-7 a.m. plus 5-11 p.m. However, this does not allow, IMO, normal participation in society. The key, in any case, is whether one sufficient sleep episode within times considered to be normal, can or cannot be achieved.

Additionally, sleep-wake is not the only activity affected by chronotype; it's just the most obvious. Hordaland 16:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Excellent points. I like the current wording. Cheers, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 06:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Segmented Sleep
I don't want to disrupt the authors' good work on this article, but I feel it should discuss segmented sleep. The article currently states: "Normal variation in chronotypes encompasses sleep/wake cycles that are from about two hours earlier to about two hours later than average;" add to this segmented sleep, "typically individuals slept in two distinct phases, bridged by an intervening period of wakefulness of up to an hour or more." A very simplistic view of this gives the following sleep pattern from various people in a social group, S=Sleeping, A=Awake:
 * SSSSASSSSAAAA (-2)
 * ASSSSASSSSAAA
 * AASSSSASSSSAA
 * AAASSSSASSSSA
 * AAAASSSSASSSS (+2)

Notice that someone is awake at all times. This seems an important safety "feature". Q.v.: http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/knowledge-center/articles/eight-hour-night-really-myth http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 http://www.history.vt.edu/Ekirch/sleepcommentary.html These were merely the most easily Googled references. As I recall, an anthropologist living with an isolated, "unscheduled" tribe was pulling an all-nighter and noticed their segmented sleep, that is, noticed everyone spent a significant amount of time awake and active in the middle of the night. She(?) emailed all the other anthropologists working with isolated tribes: All(!) of them reported the same pattern. Laguna CA (talk) 07:53, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Missing
IMO, the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire, MCTQ (Roenneberg 2003), deserves a good deal more attention here. Also Till Roenneberg is worthy of an article in (English) Wikipedia; he's done some huge studies involving thousands of people. --Hordaland (talk) 15:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * How strange. I searched for 'till roe' and found nothing.  Looked at the German article on him & from there clicked 'English' and got to our article!  Software glitch?  We do have the article Till Roenneberg.  --Hordaland (talk) 15:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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Dubious
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Unverifiable information Tpaclatee (talk) 15:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * What do you want to discuss? The dubious tag is for cited information that is implausible. You don't need the tag to start a discussion, you can do that here. 2603:7081:1603:A300:8448:8888:CC8F:BC90 (talk) 13:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)